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32 <H1>11.4 Cache and Data Maintenance</H1>
33 <P>Thumbnails and other cached data can be maintained from the dialog
34 accessible by selecting Thumbnail maintenance from the Edit menu of
35 the main window.</P>
36 <P><BR><BR>
37 </P>
38 <P><U>GQview thumbnail cache</U></P>
39 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The utilities listed here operate on
40 the GQview caching mechanism. This also includes the data cached for
41 the <A HREF="5_1_search.html">search</A> and <A HREF="5_2_finding_duplicates.html">find
42 duplicates</A> utilities.</P>
43 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clean up</B>: Removes thumbnails
44 and data for which the source image is no longer present, or has been
45 modified since the thumbnail was generated.</P>
46 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clear cache:</B> Removes all
47 thumbnails and data stored in the user's home folder:
48 $HOME/.gqview/thumbnails.</P>
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51 <P><U>Shared thumbnail cache</U></P>
52 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The utilities listed here operate on
53 the shared thumbnail mechanism.</P>
54 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clean up:</B> Removes thumbnails
55 for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified
56 since the thumbnail was generated.</P>
57 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clear cache:</B> Removes all
58 thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.</P>
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61 <P><U>Create thumbnails</U></P>
62 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">This utility will render thumbnails
63 using the current thumbnail caching mechanism, as determined in
64 <A HREF="10_1_general.html">preferences</A>.</P>
65 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Render:</B> Pre-render thumbnails
66 for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</P>
67 <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in"><B>Include subfolders:</B> Enable to
68 include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</P>
69 <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in"><B>Store thumbnails local to source
70 images:</B> The generated thumbnails will be stored local to the
71 source images, if you have the permissions to write to the folder
72 containing the images.</P>
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74 </P>
75 <P><U>Metadata</U></P>
76 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">This utility operates on the data
77 store for <A HREF="7_3_keywords.html">keywords and comments</A>
78 located in the user's home folder: $HOME/.gqview/metadata.</P>
79 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clean up:</B> Removes keywords and
80 comments for which the source image is no longer present.</P>
81 <P><BR><BR>
82 </P>
83 <P><U>File locations</U></P>
84 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The various file locations and their
85 use are listed below. <I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I> refers to your home folder
86 and <I>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</I> refers to the folder containing the image.</P>
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93 <P>Folder or File name</P>
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96 <P>Description</P>
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101 <P><B>Thumbnails</B></P>
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106 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.thumbnails</P>
107 </TD>
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109 <P>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</P>
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114 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/thumbnails</P>
115 </TD>
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117 <P>Classic GQview thumbnail cache folder. Also used to cache data
118 used for the search and find duplicates utilities to increase the
119 speed for subsequent searches.</P>
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124 <P><I>&lt;SOURCE&gt;/.</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">thumbnails</SPAN></P>
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127 <P>Local thumbnail cache folder.</P>
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132 <P><B>Metadata</B><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium"> (keywords
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138 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/metadata</P>
139 </TD>
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141 <P>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</P>
142 </TD>
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145 <TD WIDTH=50%>
146 <P><I>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</I>/.metadata</P>
147 </TD>
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149 <P>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be
150 enabled in advanced preferences.</P>
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155 <P><B>Collections</B></P>
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160 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/collections</P>
161 </TD>
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163 <P>Default location for GQview collections, collections in this
164 folder will appear in the <A HREF="7_2_sort_manager.html">sort
165 manager</A> sidebar.</P>
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170 <P><B>Preferences</B></P>
171 </TD>
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175 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview</P>
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178 <P>GQview preferences folder.</P>
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183 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/gqviewrc</P>
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186 <P>GQview preferences rc file.</P>
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191 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/history</P>
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194 <P>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks,
195 and recently used collections. Also contains default print
196 settings.</P>
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201 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/accels</P>
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204 <P>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</P>
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209 <P><B>Safe Delete</B></P>
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